Backpacking in Africa Jonny Blair
“Going up to the spirit in the sky” – Norman Greenbaum. “The Kingdom in the Sky” Lesotho 🇱🇸was neglected by me way back in 2011. That time on my first ever African adventure, I chose instead to visit South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland /Eswatini. Yet I was mightily close to Lesotho on my night bus…
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“The animal instinct in me” – Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries). Don’t you hate it when some buck eejit decides on a final list and they expect you to adhere to it. They are right. Everybody else is wrong. And they try to destroy everyone who disagrees with it. That is how I feel about the…
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Officially this was my fifth time being stamped in to South Africa. Though in essence, three of those were on my first trip here in 2011. However, it was my first time here in Cape Town and I allowed myself four nights in the city. I stayed in three different places on those nights, choosing…
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“I get so high, I just can’t feel it” – Noel Gallagher. When I finally visited Lesotho in 2020, I based myself on the edge of the capital city – Maseru. I arrived into Lesotho at Moeshoeshoe International Airport by flight from Johannesberg, and later left by land border at Maseru Bridge, to Bloemfontein, one…
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“Slow cheetah come before my forest – looks like it’s on today. Slow cheetah come, it’s so euphoric no matter what they say” – Red Hot Chili Peppers. Years and years ago I read about cheetah watching in Namibia. It was a long term dream to see the world’s fastest mammal live and up close.…
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“I’m coming up so you better you better get this party started” – Pink. Well, it was the turn of the colour pink again on my adventures…as I landed in Namibia, finally. This marked country 182 on my wacaday journey and it also meant the FIFTH time I would see a PINK lake. The previous…
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On my second trip to Botswana, in 2020 I visited the north of the country. We crossed in from Zimbabwe at Kazungula and decided to stay overnight in a crocodile farm. This was certainly another crazy adventure and another interesting sleeping location to add to our repertoire. I had read about this Crocodile Farm in…
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“In my beautiful neighbourhood” – Tommy Smith. Before you even think about getting a visa for Angola, make sure you have all your documents ready, including having proof of accommodation for every night you are here and even bank statements. Budget hostels and cheap hotels are actually quite tricky to find in Luanda when you…
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“Down the waterfall, wherever it may take me” – Robbie Williams. “Don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to” – TLC. It might seem odd and even lazy of Zimbabwe to name a city (or town) “Victoria Falls”. It doesn’t quite fit with me. It is so English…
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“Loose lips, sunk ships, I’m getting to grips with what you said” – Robbie Williams. A Shipwreck Graveyard by the Atlantic Ocean in Angola?🇦🇴 Are you serious? This place was a surprise to me. I didn’t expect to find it fascinating, interesting or in any way spectacular. I certainly didn’t expect to write a blog…
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